“The lesser of two evils is still evil.” Ancient English-language proverb. Even if one thing appears to be less bad than another thing, both of those things are still bad. Two things can be bad at the same time. Two things can be bad at the same time. Two things can be bad at the […]
Tag: Epistemics/Epistemology
“Conversion Therapy” and Callous Indifference
One of the qualities that overwhelmingly characterizes the attitude adopted by sexologists advocating either conversion therapy for trans children or for normalization and destigmatization of adult sexual interest in children (or both) is a pervasive, deeply troubling callous indifference toward the young person’s experience of acute distress. We’ve be given permission to share this article […]
Incredulity, Incuriosity, and The Academy
I remember when I was in college taking an intro to philosophy course, the professor told us that Aristotle said that swallows hibernate at the bottom of lakes in the mud and it was just taken as canonical knowledge for like 2000 years. I laughed thinking it was silly as hell, and while I forget […]
Every Rapist is a Cop Without a Badge
⚠Content Warning: Sexual Violence, Sexual Coercion, Child Sexual Assault, Rape Apologia, Pedophilia (Non-Graphic) This is a follow-up to a previous article. To read Part I, please click here. A feature of the rape apologist ideology to which feminist analysis of rape-as-power responds is the reversal of the power relations between the victim and the rapist. […]
Saying the Hard Parts
⚠Content Warning: Discussion of Child Sexual Abuse, Grooming, Transphobia
As a child I didn’t have many friends. I was trans and didn’t know it, and didn’t perform gender in the way I was expected to. I was autistic and didn’t know it, and didn’t engage socially in the way I was expected to. I was plural and didn’t know it…
‘anna’: how a kid (me) was raped online
Content Notice: Descriptions of child sexual abuse, grooming, suicide mention.
The Subaltern is Fucking Speaking!
My people are fighting and getting murdered. For once just have out backs unconditionally.
On the name “Judith’s Dagger”
Although a frequent subject in renaissance paintings already, the Florentine painter Artemisia Gentileschi famously depicted Judith’s beheading of Holofernes with unusually visceral and tactile detail, in what is believed to be a self-portrait…